Buy this book on-line THWAITE, ANTHONY - Edited by: : PHILIP LARKIN - Letters to MonicaLONDON.Fber and Faber Limited/in association Bodleian Library,Oxford,2010. ISBN 9780571239092.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE-/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy,wrap-around b/w scenic photographic illustrated dw/dj with black+grey lettering,with similar colour lettered spine/backstrip,a black+grey lettered critics' reviews to rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping, creasing to edges and corners - no nicks, tears or splits present.Top edges lightly toned with faint,sporadic dust-soiling flecks,fore-edges brighter and generally clean but with slight blemish at top edges of same,but without foxing/spotting; contents virtrually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread,other than my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean and unblemished,sharp-cornered,publisher's original maroon cloth boards with bright, crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain pale grey sets of endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn, vii-xixpp+3-475pp [paginated} includes an introduction,2pp b/w facsimile illustration reproductions (a race-course illustration,a Larkin signed birthday card and an example of his handwritten poetry), Note on contents,acknowledgements, abbreviations list/table,assorted, accumulated Letters to Monica,Larkin's b/w cartoons and facsimile letter reproductions/illustrations interspersed throughout the text and the book, appendices (A+B - letters to Larkin's addresses and letters to Monica's addresses respectively),an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,and a contents list/table with blank verso.
Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional but for the mentioned dust-flecks and small blemish to either the top+fore-edges repsectively,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.It is only the top+fore-edge faults described that prevent a slightly higher grading.
Philip Larkin met Monica Jones at University College Leicester in autumn 1946,when they were both twenty-four; he was the newly-appointed assistant librarian and she was an English lecturer. In 1950 Larkin moved to Belfast,and thence to Hull,while Monica remained in Leicester,becoming by turns his correspondent,lover and closest confidante,in a relationship which lasted over forty years until the poet's death in 1985.
This remarkable unpublished correspondence only came to light after Monica Jones' death in 2001,and consists of nearly two thousand letters,postcards and telegrams,which chronicle - day by day, sometimes hour by hour - every aspect of Larkin's life and the convolutions of their relationship.
The letters deal extensively with other writers,living and dead (D. H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield,Kipling,Dickens, Kingsley Amis),and with the experiences that shaped Larkin's poems.Their impressionistic immediacy - liberally sprinkled with Larkin's cartoons - and their relaxed privacy offer a view of the poet's personality and its resources which was often screened from his other epistolary relationships already familiar to readers of Anthony Thwaite's edition of the 'Selected Poems' (1992).
The collection was acquired by the Bodleian Library in Oxford in 2004,and the present selection is made possible through a collaboration betwween Faber and faber and the Bodleian Library.
'Letters to Monica.' offers a richly characteristic selection from Larkin's side of the correspondence,and one which tells both sides of their story.
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